Name: Polishing Your Pearl
Duration: P00H04M44S
Description: It was the situation where you are laying in bed next to someone who is sleeping. The very peacefulness of their sleep makes them enchanting and the temptation to touch them is so strong. But you don't, and then you find yourself wondering what they are dreaming about, where you go when you are sleeping, what it would be like to wake and find them gone.

Polishing Your Pearl

from Souls by The Silver Darlings

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It was the situation where you are laying in bed next to someone who is sleeping. The very peacefulness of their sleep makes them enchanting and the temptation to touch them is so strong. But you don't, and then you find yourself wondering what they are dreaming about, where you go when you are sleeping, what it would be like to wake and find them gone.

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She has gone, she has departed on another silent voyage
Cast off her lines, left this world behind, I must leave her sleeping
I want to kiss her cheek and underneath the sheets my hand seeks curves as smooth as shell
But I must leaver her be, inside the mystery and hope the currents treat her well

She has gone, she has departed on another silent voyage
Cast off her lines, left this world behind, I must leave her sleeping
And when she sails away at the end of the day, I'm praying for her safe return
With treasures from the deep, and new songs soaring sweet
'Bout how she saw my lantern burn and trades her tunes my own to learn

And when she doesn't come to harbour with the sun
I'll raise my anchor, set my sail
And head on out to sea. If she can't be with me
Then I'll be with her and the whales
I'll be standing watching from the rail
She has gone

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from Souls, released May 10, 2011

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The Silver Darlings Sheffield, UK

The Silver Darlings are a collection of musicians playing the songs of singer and guitarist Andy Whitehouse. Their playing and songs have been likened in turns to Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Karl Wallinger, Jacques Brel and Warren Zevon.
“A landlocked visionary yearning for the margins. Great stuff”
Chris Wood

“Beautiful music”
Martin Stephenson

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